Reports say, she was taken to an Amba camp on the outskirts of Bamenda, which she can't vividly recall,how they got to the said venue. The Amba boys as they are fondly called, accused her of home schooling children in that same neighbourhood. She was training some primary school children, whose schools had been closed down due to the social unrest in Bamenda. As a teacher like many others in these regions, schools had shut its doors, so they have been out of work. The woman in her mid 30s, along with her baby, were kept for hours. It was the persistent cries of the baby that appealed to conscience of her abductors, who were forced to let her go by 6pm on same day. The Ransom earlier demanded by the Amba boys from her family, was never paid. Still in shock, the woman has counted herself lucky amongst the numerous cases of kidnapping related to promoters of school resumption, in the two English- Speaking regions, where some have been tortured and others killed. Secessionists had called for a school boycott since 2017. While some parents have sent their children to French-speaking towns to pursue their education, children based in these regions have been unable to go to school due to the continuous calls for boycott and ongoing unrest. Some private and mission schools who had tried to force their gates open, have finally shut them down due to constant attacks and kidnappings by secessionists.

A recent case is that of Longla Comprehensive College Bamenda, where the Principal, Vice Principal and some students were kidnapped after an attack on the school. They were later released on Thursday, February 28. St Augustine’ s College Nso, also saw the kidnapping of over 170 students, which led to the immediate closure of the school. Parents who couldn’t afford to send their children to relatives out of the affected regions , or don’t have relatives at all in these areas, preferred having their children home schooled. It was therefore under these circumstances that the nursing mother was rebuked by suspected Amba boys for promoting education. In 2018, the United Nations Emergency Aid Coordination body,OCHA, had revealed over 42000 children are out of school in the Anglophone regions.